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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2007 Sep 17.
Published in final edited form as: Ophthalmol Clin North Am. 2004 Mar;17(1):7–20. doi: 10.1016/j.ohc.2003.12.001

Fig. 13.

Fig. 13

Scleral suture can be identified by looking for its shadowing artifact (arrow). This artifact is created owing to refraction of the ultrasound beam at a boundary between suture thread and the surrounding tissues.